Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials Overview

After having configured your server for initial use, the banner options along the top become much more usable.  Having walked through many of these process already, you can now start to find tune your WSSE experience and bring your NAS into production.

USERS

Users is broken down into to major sections: Users and User Groups.

Users are the individual users that are created to access your NAS and groups contain users and allow you set permissions based on the groups they belong to.  Managing permissions from Groups is far easier than if you have many users.

Users allows you to quickly see all users configured on your server.  It provides some basic statistics about how they connect and their activity history.

On the right side of the Users window are User Tasks

• Refresh
• Add a user account
• Set the password Policy
• Change the File History setting
• Export all remote connections

Adding users is as easy as it was during the Get Started process.

When a user is highlighted, the options in the right window become

• View the account properties
• Change the user account password

User Groups is an easy way to classify users and provide rights to those users across the platform.  Similar to the Users section, User Groups presents you with some options on the right side of the windows

• Add a new user group
• Refresh

 

Adding a group

When a group is selected, the options in the right window become:

• View the user group properties
• Change the user group membership
• Remove the user group